One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn’t necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want ...
Emma: You can demand that Pettibone retain my services, but you cannot make similar demands of the parents of the students. They will not entrust the education of their daughters to a woman who has removed her clothing for an artist, no matter how ex...
And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that theirs are limitless. Once you commit to something, though, that ceases to be true. A former student sent me an essay he wrote, a few years after col...
Tengo's lectures took on uncommon warmth, and the students found themselves swept up in his eloquence. He taught them how to practically and effectively solve mathematical problems while simultaneously presenting a spectacular display of the romance ...
As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean 'misuse; diminish the effects of; steal; defeat': "I just went to the mall and raped my VISA." "My dad phoned this morning and raped my b...
The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a , but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the R...
...your zeal to face life's rough and tumble, your ardor to accept the responsibilities of adulthood is hardly congruent with the aspirations of most graduate students...' He shook his head of disagreeable hair. 'I need not tell you,' he deplored, si...
I am skeptical that distance education based on asynchronous Internet technologies (i.e., prerecorded video, online forums, and email) is a substitute for live classroom discussion and other on-campus interaction. Distance education students can't ra...
[None of his literature students are paying attention] Jennings: Don't write this down, but I find Milton probably as boring as you find Milton. Mrs. Milton found him boring too. He's a little bit long-winded, he doesn't translate very well into our ...
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.
When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.
If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
